From The Tips Box: Google Instant, Full Screen Maps, Secure Facebook

Readers offer their best tips for making Google Instant work in Opera, viewing Google Maps in full screen and visiting encrypted Facebook.

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Make Google Instant Work in Opera

Rkarren tells us how to fix Google Instant in unsupported browsers:

To make Google Instant work in Opera (Google says that its not supported), right click on the home page and click Edit Site Preferences. Go to the network tab, and under Browser Identification, click "Mask as Firefox". This trick also works with Netflix.

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